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There have been mistakes in the past, but this is something that should have been caught immediately, which suggests that they were aware of it at release.
Is it just nostalgia goggles telling me that Jobs would not have let these out the door?
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/apple-addresses-macbook...
That is much more embarrassing than simple thermal throttling of the CPU. The thermal overload on PMIC chips are designed to handle malfunctions not regular usage.
On TWiT[0]. They had the keyboard up to 115f sometimes, some other videos on youtube have gone much higher. I've also seen a couple of youtubers and the number is growing, returning their macbooks [1], [2], due to the performance and the number is growing daily. I really think this issue is down to a few things. 1) The need from Apple to be thinner each iteration, is really costing them the ability to have better the…
I don't understand how this happened. Apple is a company that built it's empire on paying a premium for reliability and ease of use. There have been mistakes in the past, but this is something that should have been caught immediately, which suggests that they were aware of it at release. Is it just nostalgia goggles telling me that Jobs would not have let these out the door?
On TWiT[0]. They had the keyboard up to 115f sometimes, some other videos on youtube have gone much higher. I've also seen a couple of youtubers and the number is growing, returning their macbooks [1], [2], due to the performance and the number is growing daily. I really think this issue is down to a few things. 1) The need from Apple to be thinner each iteration, is really costing them the ability to have better the…
It astonishes me how well that old laptop does what I need, considering any laptop from 2006 or 2004 would have been slow as molasses in 2012, and total garbage today.
Seems crazy to spend so much on a machine, just have to do something that apparently can void your warranty if something goes amiss, to take advantage of the extra power you paid for.